LTRIM
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Removes leading space characters from the given string.
Syntax
LTRIM (str)
Arguments
-
str: any string or binary object
Return Type
String
Examples
Note
This function removes only space " " characters.\t
, newline \n
, etc are preserved.TRIM(LEADING " " FROM str)
.
SELECT RTRIM(' ohai ') AS r, LTRIM(' ohai ') AS l;
+----------+-----------+
| r | l |
+----------+-----------+
| ohai | ohai |
+----------+-----------+
Caution
Implicit Collation
When character_
is set to utf8
, string literals with characters using 4-byte encoding are implicitly assigned binary collation and processed as a sequence of bytes rather than characters.utf8mb4
character set.
For more information, refer to Implicit Collation in Special Cases.
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Last modified: April 4, 2023